With an overseas career that has so far taken him from an eastern corner of Europe to the coast of the Red Sea, Eric McWoods is racking up miles as well as unique living and playing experiences.
After the substandard performance against El Salvador a few days ago, the USMNT showed that if nothing else, they have consistency as they put in another similar performance against a Canadian team that they should have beaten. The game ended a goal apiece.
Considered to be one of the USMNT’s best ever central defenders, Oguchi Onyewu played for the Nats 69 times where he won two Gold Cups and represented the USA in the 2006 and 2010 World Cups.
Sam Vines opened his account over the weekend for his Pro League team, while Chris Durkin helped his STVV squeak out a victory on the road.
It was a relatively good weekend for results of American teams with a pair of wins and shared points. It was only Tim Weah who didn’t get any playing minutes, however.
The draw for the group stages of the UEFA Europa League took place Friday afternoon in Istanbul, Turkey and eight teams with American interests were involved.
After last night’s Champions League play-off games where both Jordan Siebatcheu Pefok’s Young Boys and Brenden Aaronson’s RB Salzburg advanced to join the other 30 teams in the draw, 13 Americans learned who they would be facing in the group stages of Europe’s most prestigious club competition this afternoon.
The last hurdle into the Champions League group stages saw two teams with American interests go through, while two were knocked out of the competition.
A player that slipped under the radar as he arrived in Belgium before the beginning of last season was USA youth international Maki Tall.
It was a wild night on the Mediterranean coast when American international Konrad de la Fuente and his Marseille teammates were attacked by fans from Nice after a water bottle-throwing incident.
